The majority of the issue concerns a rich array of inspiring thought and commentary about how therapy can be interpreted and viewed from nine experts responding to a successful single brief therapy session. This session, conducted by Stephen Lankton, M.S.W., concerned a client suffering from chronic anxiety and severe anxiety attacks. Analyses of the case transcript and video came from Richard Fisch, M.D., William Matthew’s, Ph.D., Lynn Johnson, Ph.D., Robert Schwarz, Psy.D., Jane Parsons-Fein, M.S.W., Bradford P. Keeney, Ph.D., Gregg Eichenfield, Ph.D., Carol Kershaw, Ed.D., Betty Alice Erickson, M.A., and Robert Pearson, MD. Other articles provide thoughtful material on theory, context, case research, and short term therapy, as well as a look at Milton Erickson’s explanation of his own work.
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Hypnotherapy Combined with Psychotherapy
Hypnosis combined with psychotherapy can shorten the duration of treatment, elicit patient awareness, directly effect symptom-relief, facilitate interpretation, promote connection between past experience with present, and strengthens the doctor-patient relationship. (37 pp.)
Relaxation Training
Relaxation Training refers to a variety of procedures designed to induce in an individual a state of relative muscular relaxation with concomitant subjective feelings of tranquility and calm. (10 pp.)